Lynette Kay Pampell Lively

Choosing my person to interview for my project was probably one of the easiest parts of this learning experience. As soon as I read my project guidelines I knew I wanted to interview my grandmother. This project has helped me to learn so much more about her and I now feel so much closer to her now than I did before. Lynette Kay Pampell Lively was born on November 9, 1949, in Houston, Texas. She had two loving parents, William Ludwig Pampell and Frances Nay Garlington. Her father William was born March 17, 1916, and he died January 27, 1925. William’s parents, Ernst Pampell and Ester Moerbe, were German and French. Both his mother and father spoke fluid german and english. Her mother Frances was born on September 21, 1925, and she is alive and well today. Frances’ parents, Carson Garlington and Easter Phillips were French and Irish. Her mother was from Louisiana and she was French and her father was from Texas, but he was Irish. Counting both her mother’s and her father’s siblings, Lynette had 9 aunts and uncles all together. Having such a big family made reunions and parties some of her …show more content…
Her parent’s loved her and her brother and sister. They were raised in a Lutheran church, and they also attended a Lutheran school. In the time Lynette grew up it was customary for the man to work and for the woman to stay home with the children and that is how she was raised. Every day that her father left for work she remembers what her father said to her mother, “Frances I love you, have a good day, and take care of the kids” Lynette never remembers a time that her father and mother didn’t put her and her siblings first. She never felt like she was closer to one parent than to the other. She always knew that her mother was more of the disciplinarian and her father was who she could go to when she wanted something, but she never felt biased when it came to her